Philip Howard Lecture

Time: Thu Oct 2, 2014, 3:30 pm -
5:00 pm

Location: 126 DeBartolo Hall

“Can American Government Be Fixed? How We Lost Authority to Govern Ourselves and What to do About It”

Philip K. Howard is a well-known leader of government and legal reform in America. His new book, The Rule of Nobody (W. W. Norton, April 2014), has been praised by Fareed Zakaria as “an utterly compelling and persuasive book that, if followed, could change the way America works.” His Ted Talk has has been viewed by almost 500,000 people. Mr. Howard is also the author of the best-seller The Death of Common Sense (Random House, 1995), The Collapse of the Common Good (Ballantine Books, 2002) and Life Without Lawyers (W. W. Norton, 2009).